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The Brakes Were Cut Long Before Anyone Checked the Engine
The dementia frame is clinically wrong and morally convenient. The thirty-year record describes character, not decline. It's time to reckon with that.
Apr 4
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Dino Alonso
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March 2026
Nobody's Walking Out. They're Changing the Locks.
American military dominance isn't collapsing — it's being renegotiated by host nations without Washington at the table. Qatar and Korea prove it.
Mar 28
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Dino Alonso
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Democratic Perimeter Update - March 23 - 27
A weekly civic watch on federal power, the Iran war, a 41-day DHS shutdown, Minnesota's legislative fight, and Europe's quiet reckoning with American…
Mar 27
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Dino Alonso
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A Note to My Readers
Light Against Empire goes fully free. Here's why a paywall was always the wrong door for writing meant to cross the divides that are breaking us.
Mar 26
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Dino Alonso
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Lessons of Leaving
A humanist's departures from church, spirituality, and the American Legion reveal why belonging is one need that never betrays us, even when every…
Mar 22
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Dino Alonso
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7:15
The Lessons of Leaving
A humanist's four departures from church, spirituality, and the American Legion reveal why belonging is the one need that never betrays us, even when…
Mar 22
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Dino Alonso
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You Were Promised the Files
Trump promised to release the Epstein files. His Justice Department withheld the 53 pages that matter most. The serial numbers prove it. Here's what…
Mar 16
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Dino Alonso
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Two Men, One War, Whose Dead?
Netanyahu needed his trial buried. Trump needed Epstein gone. Fifty thousand Palestinians died while two men solved their legal problems with one war.
Mar 15
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Dino Alonso
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Life After Leaving Church (10)
The final essay in the series. What does life look like years after leaving church? Not the leaving. The life that came after. It was worth it.
Mar 15
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Dino Alonso
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Life After Leaving Church (10)
How to Live Well in the Life You Built
Mar 15
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Dino Alonso
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11:08
Relax. It’s Just Another War.
From Korea to Tehran, America keeps fighting the same war for the same reasons. Here's the pattern they're counting on you to forget. Again.
Mar 14
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Dino Alonso
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THE DEMOCRATIC PERIMETER - 7-13 March 2026
Day 27 of the DHS shutdown, ICE withdrawals in Minnesota and Maine, Arctic sovereignty, and a fracturing NATO alliance. The perimeter holds, but…
Mar 13
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Dino Alonso
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